Full dimensional ab initio direct dynamics calculations of the ionization of H2 clusters (H2)n (n= 3, 4 and 6)
Full dimensional ab initio direct dynamics calculations of the ionization of H2 clusters (H2)n (n= 3, 4 and 6)
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H2 团簇 (H2)n (n= 3、4 和 6) 电离的全维从头算直接动力学计算
DOI:
10.1039/b004969g
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
H. Tachikawa
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作者:
H. Tachikawa
The
dyamics of (H2+)(H2)n−1 clusters following the ionization of (H2)n (n
= 3, 4 and 6), which plays an important
role in the initial processes of electron-beam irradiation of solid hydrogen, have been investigated by
means of ab initio direct dynamics calculations. The full dimensional potential energy surface (PES) calculated
at the UHF/311G(p) level was used throughout. One of the hydrogen molecules in the cluster was vertically
ionized at time zero. The calculations showed that the H2 molecules gradually approach the ionized hydrogen
molecule H2+ in the initial stage of the reaction and then one of the hydrogen molecules collides with H2+ (the approach time is about 100 fs). The hydrogen atom or proton transfer reaction occurs rapidly by
collision of H2+ with H2, according to the reaction H2+
+ H2
→ H3+
+ H (the reaction time is about 10 fs). The hydrogen
atom leaves the cluster with large translational energy (7–26 kcal mol−1, depending on the cluster size).
The product ion H3+ is vibrationally and rotationally hot. It was also found in some cases that H3+ is solvated
by neighboring H2
molecules to form the ion–molecule cluster (H3+)(H2)m (m
= 1–3). Similar dynamics features
were obtained for each cluster (n
= 3, 4 and 6). The mechanism of the reaction is discussed on the basis of the theoretical
results. Note that the present study
is the first
attempt to elucidate
the ionization dynamics of hydrogen clusters.